The opening ceremonies of the 1904 World's Fair at the Plaza of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. A crowd, seated on wide benches, faces two men at a podium at the base of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Monument. The monument bears the words of...

ALEXANDRA DIACHENKO KOCHMAN - is an artist working in clay. She has exhibited throughout the U.S. She is also interested in Ukrainian history and culture. She is an active member of the Ukrainian community in Chicago and professional art...

Long train on a set of railroad tracks curving to the right around a steep mountain on the left with a drop-off to the right. Title: 8075- Rounding the Curves on Marshall Pass, Colorado, U.S.A. Text on left: Keystone View Company. Copyright 1898,...

Train approaching from the left on a set of railroad tracks with steep, tall rock walls on either side. To the right, in front of the rock is the Arkansas River. There is an iron fence between the land with the railroad tracks and the water. Title:...

Almost aerial view of Washington, D.C. showing the White House and other government buildings behind a green space bordered by trees. Title: (2) From Washington Monument (N.), White House, Treasury, and State Department, Washington, U.S.A....

"This great painting was later renamed, with fitting opportunism, The Premonition of Civil War." (Caption); "The events of October 1934, and his scare in Barcelona, seem to have convinced Dali that civil war was a real possibility in Spain. It was...

"Dali and Gala had every reason to be grateful to America, which had showered them with dollars. Here, as Columbus, the painter kneels on the shore, holding aloft a silver crucifix. Gala appears once more as Virgin Mary, on the banner." (Caption);...

"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being recovered....

"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being recovered....

"The vast majority of prehistoric sculptures depict either animals or humans. In the earliest art, humankind consists almost exclusively of women as opposed to men, and painters and sculptors almost invariably showed them nude […]. When...